You might see if Oracle is still giving out free software

Post #21,430 by tonytib 12/13/01 10:51:47 PM Reply	You might see if Oracle is still giving out free software for joining the Oracle Developer Network. Although I haven't had time to play with it, I did get some Linux software from Oracle from joining a while ago. Good luck! Tony
Post #21,458 by nking 12/14/01 1:51:08 AM Reply	Oracle freebies Yes they do, I joined up and am downloading it now. The 8i Enterprise for Windows NT/2000 is about 600M. The 9i is three 600M download files. Yikes! For development only but it is a big monster download! I'll try to get the Linux version after the NT/2000 version. Thanks! After I install them and get them working, I'll try to brush up on my Oracle PL/SQL skills and Oracle DBA skills. "Oy! Seats taken mate!" - "Brilliant!" on BBC America
Post #21,478 by admin 12/14/01 10:07:58 AM Reply	Get 9i Much better, easier install on Linux. PostgreSQL (if you can ever download it :-P -- actually, check your distro, you should be able to get the packages from them or from rpmfind.net) has the advantage over Interbase et al. in that it uses a subset of PL/SQL for its stored procedures. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #21,495 by tonytib 12/14/01 11:30:12 AM Reply	Yep, that's why I think he should look at Oracle/PostgreSQL With Oracle 9i being the first priority. Although I think IB should get a fair shot, it doesn't have much market or mind share. Norm is interested in learning stuff that employers will be interested....thus Oracle should be #1. And, given the similarities between Oracle and PostgreSQL, I think PostgreSQL should be the open source data base he tries to learn if he has any time after practicing with Oracle. Tony
Post #21,522 by nking 12/14/01 3:06:48 PM Reply	This bandwidth is killing me I just finished downloading 8i and now 9i is three CDs full of files? Yikes! I hope my ISP doesn't ding me for the bandwidth used to download them. rpmfind.net doesn't seem to work, I also tried www.rpmfind.net, got a host not found error. Either my ISP is flakey or their host is down? "Oy! Seats taken mate!" - "Brilliant!" on BBC America
Post #21,524 by nking 12/14/01 3:12:45 PM Reply	Got it! I went to [link\|http://www.rpmfind.org\|[link\|http://www.rpmfind.org\|http://www.rpmfind.org]] and got it from there. I am not sure why the .net didn't work? Must be my DNS flaking out on me? "Oy! Seats taken mate!" - "Brilliant!" on BBC America

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